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the scaled-up world adults made

[...] one night they'd had a serious division of views over Berlin. "I know what they ought to do," Grover yelled (he always yelled — at walls, at anything else solid that happened to be around -to let you know it wasn't you he was mad at but something else, something to do with the scaled-up world…

—p.143 Slow Learner: Early Stories Under the Rose (99) by Thomas Pynchon
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signals had, of course, been arranged years before

[...] Porpentine closed his eyes. He'd blown it, all right. This was what happened when one blundered right in. The policemen surrounded them, stood at attention. "All right," Porpentine said. He and Goodfellow arose and were escorted out of the theater. "We shall desire your passports," one of the…

—p.132 Under the Rose (99) by Thomas Pynchon
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no longer through the virtù of single princes

[...] An alignment like this, he felt, could only have taken place in a Western World where spying was becoming less an individual than a group enterprise, where the events of 1848 and the activities of anarchists and radicals all over the Continent seemed to proclaim that history was being made no…

—p.107 Under the Rose (99) by Thomas Pynchon
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and the next logical extension

"Well first let me just say, that I am no Mingus, no John Lewis. Theory was never my strong point. I mean things like reading were always difficult for me and all - "

"I know," Meatball said drily. "You got your card taken away because you changed key on Happy Birthday at a Kiwanis Club picnic."…

—p.95 Entropy (79) by Thomas Pynchon
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the place was invaded by five enlisted personnel

Meatball had abandoned Saul to a bottle of tequila and was about to go to sleep in a closet when the front door flew open and the place was invaded by five enlisted personnel of the U.S. Navy, all in varying stages of abomination. "This is the place," shouted a fat, pimply seaman apprentice who had…

—p.92 Entropy (79) by Thomas Pynchon